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Portland Monthly food editor Katherine Chew Hamilton, nor am I PoMo arts editor Conner Reed; I am not even, though I devoutly wish I was, our magazine’s esteemed food critic Karen Brooks (who, fun fact, was once a judge on the very program of which we are here to speak!).   But look, we have a magazine to make, and everyone is busy, and sometimes a mere news editor who happens to have a penchant for reality TV worms her way into the Top Chef rotation, okay?   I used to be a big Top Chef fan, but somewhere around the Seattle/Boston seasons of 2014/2015, I fel...

Now that the temps have turned warm enough for me to once again spend hours in my yard fussing over flowers and ripping out weeds with therapeutic glee, I am back on my audiobook game. The first one of the season was  Supermaker by Jaime Schmidt. Schmidt began as a Portlander with a tiny little homemade beauty company hawking natural deodorant in a  Little House on the Prairie-style bonnet 👀at local farmers markets—seven years later, she sold it as an international company to Unilever for more than $100 million.  Supermaker goes through the whole process from ...

Now that the temps have turned warm enough for me to once again spend hours in my yard fussing over flowers and ripping out weeds with therapeutic glee, I am back on my audiobook game. The first one of the season was  Supermaker by Jaime Schmidt. Schmidt began as a Portlander with a tiny little homemade beauty company hawking natural deodorant in a  Little House on the Prairie-style bonnet 👀at local farmers markets—seven years later, she sold it as an international company to Unilever for more than $100 million.  Supermaker goes through the whole process from ...

After Jessica Walter’s passing last week, I’ve been rewatching old episodes of Arrested Development. Admittedly, I was late to the party, but eventually screen-grabs of Walter’s character Lucille Bluth making outrageous statements and only-she-would blunders won me over. Of course, we can’t discount Walter’s performances as SFPD Chief of Detectives Amy Prantiss in Amy Prantiss, the sardonic Mallory Archer in Archer, or her role in 1978’s absolutely incredible  Dr. Strange.  But the Walter role that stole the stage was Lucille Bluth—the mar...

Mortal Kombat, Melissa McCarthy, and More The content in our queues, from a promising new HBO trailer to a trip down SNL memory lane. Josh Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet performing at Austin City Limits in 2018. The band's new song, "Heat Above," made a big impression on PoMo intern Aurora Biggers this week.  As the suspiciously good vibes continue and spring sinks its hooks into Portland, our media diets at Portland Monthly have taken a turn for the joyful. Here's what we love this week, from a schlocky, promising trailer to a ’70s-tinged banger, and beyond. When the  Down ...